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Direct linkWarren-Kring, Bonnie Z.; Rutledge, Valerie C. – Teacher Educator, 2011
In this research study the authors analyzed the effectiveness of content-area education students tutoring adolescents and documented changes in the attitudes of the education students over time. Tutors tested the reading comprehension of both the students they tutored (treatment group) and students they did not (comparison group). The authors used…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Preservice Teachers, Reading Comprehension, Tutorial Programs
Peer reviewedGold, Patricia Cohen; Horn, Pamela L. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Trained volunteers tutored youth and adults who were reading below fifth grade level. Pre- and posttest measures of reading, verbal language, listening comprehension, and locus of control were taken. Experimental subjects, but not controls, made significant gains in general reading and discrete reading subskills. Trained volunteers can ameliorate…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Functional Literacy, Pretests Posttests
Peer reviewedMahler, Charles A. – School Psychology Review, 1986
A cross-age tutoring program designed to improve school performance of tutors (adolescents classified as emotionally disturbed) and tutees (children classified as educable mentally retarded) was replicated in an urban public school district. Results showed that both tutors and tutees improved on academic and social measures of school performance.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Children, Cross Age Teaching
Peer reviewedPolirstok, Susan Rovet; Greer, R. Douglas – Education and Treatment of Children, 1986
Results of analyzing variables impacting the behavior of four ninth-grade poor-achieving tutors and 20 seventh-grade tutees with reading difficulties found that giving tutor points for reinforcing tutee responses was the most important component of the tutoring package for both tutors and tutees. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Inner City, Low Achievement
Peer reviewedBlackbourn, Vonda A.; Blackbourn, J. M. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1993
An adolescent with moderate mental disabilities tutored a seven year old in arithmetic. The peer tutoring program increased the mathematics performance of the first grader, successfully integrated the adolescent into a more typical classroom environment, improved the accuracy of the tutor's mathematics performance, and resulted in changes in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Arithmetic, Cross Age Teaching, Grade 1
Download full textRolzinski, Catherine A. – 1990
This book presents seven case studies of middle school youth service programs that challenge their participants to change from takers to givers and from observers to active members of the community. Chapter 1 discusses new ways for responding to the needs of middle school youth and promoting community service. Chapter 2 describes a tutoring…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Community Services, Delinquency Prevention
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Social Welfare Development and Research Center. – 1973
A summary and highlight of the significant developments, major accomplishments and important research findings of the three years of operation of the Honolulu Buddy System Project is contained in this document. In addition, the implications that the research data have generated, along with further directions to be explored are included. Most…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Court Role, Cross Age Teaching
